Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-04
MR.. wATTERsON's VIEWS.
Cleveland a Democratic Necessity
The Solid South Ready to Break.

The Solid South Ready to Break
Iateruie7o in the Chicago Tribune.
"Mr. Watterson, what about CleVe-
andW
81 do not believe there is the slightest
chance of the Democratic party winning
next year unless it does nominate Cleve-
land. He is the only man that can, under
present conditions, carry the party TO
victory. / don't see how they are going
TO get around it. They must take him:
1t will be perhaps to some like dose OF
medicine, but, then, as the quack says,
It's my compound or DEATH"
lone object of john Sherman's tour
South. 1t is said by Virginia paper, is 10
prepare the way for reviving the hepuo-
lican party there, outside of negroism
and sectional prejudice. DO you believe
such thing possible|'
lit is not only possible, but probable.
l am looking every year for breakup OF
the solid South, and it will be good
thing for the country when it comes.
But it will never come until the RepuOll-
can party of the North drops its section
alism, ceases it's attempts to array race
against race and buries the bloody snllt.
That garment should be burned and Its
ashes scattered. Just SO long as the Re-
publicans keep alive the memories OF the
ism, seek to aid and maintain negro domi-
nance under the sentimental guise Of
equal rights and all that, just 30 long
will the white people oil the South main
tain q solid front. They must do 1t, 1t
is their protection. Their safety and
their honor and pride, to say nothing OF
self-inteTest, will keep them up to the
rack. But the old Whlg leaven is there
in all the States, and especially In those
yhan
couldn't get any Southern man now per-
haps to aVow himself in sympathy with
the old Wing principles. but they all love
| the memory of Henry Clay and the idea
of protection, internal improvements,
| Capitalization and simpliticatiOn OF gov
eminent is strong with very large pro-
portion of them. 1t would be the easiest
thing in the world to develop these ideas
| il the South could only be assured that
the effort was made in good faith and
| that the sectional cry was to cease for
ever. The country is ripe for breakup.
A new era has begun. New blood is
coming in. Capital is pouring to the
| front. Railways are building and eX-
| tending. There is indeed New South,
and now it only remains for the poll
| ticians OF the North to understand their
| duty. You may think this is queer talk
| from q Democrat, but then Indulge in
| queer Jdlk6 eOLnotlu6s. DSlloNe IL WOulu
| be a great thing for the whole country,
and for the Democratic party in particu-
lar, to break Up the solid South and cease
to elect Presidents and Congresses on
sectional lines. 1t is coming as sure as
the sun shines. Look at Virginia with
| her six Republican Congressman out OF
eight. North Carolina is trembling on
tho verge of political revolution; Ten
nessee doesn't dare 60 out after dark for
fear of finding the house occupied by
some stranger on her return; Alabama is
| filing up with Northern people and is
bound to be a protection State. All these
things point to new era in American
politics, and l welcome the day OF Its
| advent. II Mr.. Sherman can do any.
| thing In his next weeks tour TO prepare
| the people of the South for the reception
| of new ideas or make them believe that
the old ones are dead and buried he will
be doing a great work."